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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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All Hallows' Leask (Hallowle'ask) @leask.bsky.social · 6h

I find the quest to make the dryest or filthiest martini to be exhausting in the same way I wish they'd stop piling shit on caesars/bloody marys or milkshakes, so I appreciate @jayasaxena.com's piece on wet, sweet & floral martinis having their day slate.com/life/2025/10...

One of the Greatest Cocktails Has Been Ruined by a Nasty Trend. But There’s Hope on the Horizon.

The era of bracing bravado is coming to an end.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 9h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 20h

Karen the lindor truffles are for *me*

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 23h

I detached my post from this quote, such a disgusting thing to even think, let alone blithely post publicly

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t think the emotion isn’t real, certainly.

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

Sensical AND sensible!

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

It might just be a tautological difference of terminology — I don’t think any of my AZ or pro-🍉 friends would consider themselves 2SS-endorsing, more like exhaustedly willing to accept it

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

Jessica

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

If you get the newsletter on Saturdays (which print subscribers do) the web version hasn’t published yet! It goes live on Sunday.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

No I completely agree with your position — but almost every person I encounter who actively supports 2SS seems to mostly want it so Israel can continue uninterrupted and uncriticized

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Funny Karate Bear (But Spooky ooooooo!) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 1d

What’s “funny” about this is that the notion that Jewish people can’t integrate and remain in a multi-demographic society is an anti-semitic canard and also the justification under which the Nazis distributed pro-colonial newspapers. It’d be a darkly comic irony if not for the mass death.

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that Israel cannot be (cannot become, cannot sustain as) pluralistic is a racist sleight-of-hand. There’s absolutely no reason there can’t be one integrated state EXCEPT that it would require dismantling the current system of judeosupremacist apartheid.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

I honor the beautiful bubble you seem to be in

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

That’s just a little from #1 and a little from #2

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think that rewarding/maintaining judeosupremacy is meaningfully distinct from supporting judeosupremacy! Unless their 2SS endorsement is being explicitly framed as a last-ditch option due to Israel’s moral irredeemablity, I guess.

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · 1d

Agree with your points, but I think many people push for the two-state solution because they don't believe Israel would ever accept Palestinians as equal citizens in their society (and we're much closer to genocide and forced relocation).

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think that rewarding/maintaining judeosupremacy is meaningfully distinct from supporting judeosupremacy! Unless their 2SS endorsement is being explicitly framed as a last-ditch option due to Israel’s moral irredeemablity, I guess.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

I’m saying I find it hard to believe the people who support it now have ever actually cared about what Palestinians want

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

It was not actually a really good metajoke it was pretty bad

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

I had a really good metajoke in the column I just filed about how a certain sentence could be read in past tense or present subjunctive at the reader’s discretion, and my editor cut it and I GET IT but also aw man

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

As if they’ve ever cared about what Palestinians want

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! — arguably a subset of option 3

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

Who knows! Could be anywhere!

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

If someone calls for a two-state solution you should push them to be specific abt why they don’t support one state. It always comes down to one of three things:
- they think Palestinians are subhuman
- they support judeosupremacy
- they’ve actually never really thought about it before

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that Israel cannot be (cannot become, cannot sustain as) pluralistic is a racist sleight-of-hand. There’s absolutely no reason there can’t be one integrated state EXCEPT that it would require dismantling the current system of judeosupremacist apartheid.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

If it were to happen — which certainly would be preferable to the status quo — it should be considered both a last resort and an appalling failure.

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